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• horticulture in the kitchen garden, polytunnel, greenhouse and orchard;
cultivation of seeds and plants in the vegetable beds and outdoor
workshop; gardening and groundswork at local off-site work placements.
• administration and fulfilment tasks such as filing, delivering post,
shredding, laminating, packaging and printing.
• customer services including running the student tuck shop and staff
resources shop on-site or working at a community garden centre off-site.
• baking, health and safety, customer service and food hygiene in our onsite,
purpose-built bakery (Bread & Beyond).
• On-site and off-site work placements are developed with local and national
companies to support genuine, supported vocational opportunities for the
young people.
4. Communicating progress
How will both you and I know how my child/young person is doing and
how will you help me to support my child's/young person's learning?
Assessment and celebration of achievements
We have high expectations of our young people in all areas of their lives. Through
careful planning, which includes parent's views, we set goals and targets for each
young person's development in many areas of their life including independence
and behaviour management as well as curriculum areas.
Progress at Prior's Court is measured using our I Can statements system. An I Can
statement is what a young person is able to do in any given task, activity or
learning scenario across our seven Areas of Learning, which span learning in
education, residential and community settings. I Can statements, hosted within
our data recording system Prior Insight, build on each other but are broken down
into achievable steps towards a much bigger goal.
I Can statements include a high frequency of reward and motivation to
encourage learning. We celebrate young people's achievements and progress in
a multitude of ways within both education and residential departments on a daily
and weekly basis with praise, achievement boards, certificates and rewards and
shared with parents through regular communications by phone, in writing and in
person.
To ensure that appropriate patterns of development are achieved for each
individual child, a number of assessments are used which support the ongoing
recording of progress and each young person has an annual and six monthly
report which contributes to the review meetings.